Les Mikesell wrote: > On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:45 PM, John R. Dennison <jrd at gerdesas.com> wrote: >> On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 01:36:36AM +0200, Markus Falb wrote: >>> >>> this works but at least with bash you can do it with brace expansion >>> for x in {1..10}; do … ; done >>> >>> it's a bashism but maybe more portable, e.g. OS-X has no seq >>> no fork (for the seq) is necessary as well >> >> True. Thing I like about seq is that it also takes an optional >> increment value which can be very handy at times. > > Is it _really_ that hard to type the explicit loop with test ([) and > expr? These were builtins even in bourne shell eons ago. It is not hard. I *tested* what I posted yesterday, and copied and pasted it into my email. mark